In fact, he added, Apandi Ali dug the grave for the Prime Minister by claiming that the latter thought the funds were from the mysterious Arab donor who gifted him with USD681 million. “However, Najib would have contradicted himself because the ‘unutilised’ Arab donation was purportedly returned to the donor in August 2013, long before the SRC International transfers took place.”
Based on this evidence alone, said Pua who is also DAP National Publicity Secretary, there’s now a clear cut prima facie case to charge the Prime Minister for corrupt practices or criminal breach of trust and it is for Najib to prove his innocence in the court of law.
The Attorney-General would be grossly abusing his discretionary powers to accept the Prime Minister’s unconvincing and contradictory excuses by not allowing the court of law to determine the truth, warned Pua. He called upon the Attorney-General to explain his “expose”, inadvertent or otherwise, and reconsider his “satisfaction” that there was no case against Najib to ensure that Malaysia, which is already suffering from a political and economic crisis of confidence, does not become further humiliated in the eyes of the world.
He was commenting on Apandi Ali confirming that SRC International transferred an additional RM27 million, on top of the earlier exposed RM42 million, to Najib’s personal bank accounts.
The Attorney-General exposed the damning transfer amounting to RM27 million by SRC International to the Prime Minister, reiterated Pua. “This took place when Apandi Ali held up several documents during Tuesday’s press conference to emphasize the fact that his office had carried out thorough investigations.”
By zooming in on a particular chart, said Pua, it disclosed that SRC International transferred that money earlier on 16 July 2014 via Putrajaya Perdana Bhd’s subsidiaries – Putra Perdana Construction Sdn Bhd and Permai Binaraya Sdn Bhd. SRC International transferred RM35 million to Putra Perdana Construction, which then transferred RM34.99 million to Permai Binaraya, which then transferred RM27 million to Najib’s private bank account ending “880”.
From the Prime Minister’s “880” account, RM20 million was transferred on the very same day to two other of his accounts in Ambank, with the amount split evenly between an “898” and a “906” account.
The “880” account had subsequently received RM10 million and RM27 million in December 2014 and February 2015 respectively, via Gandingan Mentari and Ihsan Perdana. The “906” account was also previously disclosed to have received RM5 million via the same source in December 2014.
Separately, the chart showed that the funds transferred to the “880” account was also used to pay for Najib’s VISA and Mastercard bills amounting to a total of RM3.2 million. “The Attorney-General’s document now validates the credit card transactions earlier exposed by the Sarawak Report,” pointed out Pua. “We now know for certain that there was at least RM69 million which has been transferred to Najib’s personal accounts between July 2014 and February 2015.”